wired

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban tries to keep things as simple as possible when it comes to communication. Complicated business language bothers him — and there’s one word that really stands out. What To Know: Cuban is not a fan of jargon, especially when people use certain words in an...

Perplexity AI’s revenue and usage has grown 700% since the start of the year after the artificial-intelligence tech startup closed a new $250 million round of funding. The AI-powered search engine said it answered about 250 million questions in the last month, up from 500 million queries for...

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban likes to keep things as simple as possible, so it bothers him when he hears complicated business lingo, and there's one word that really stands out. What To Know: Cuban is not a fan of jargon, especially when people use certain words just...

Google parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) pulled the plug on its eight-year-old Loon project, the gigantic balloons that beam internet to the underserved areas. What Happened: Loon was an experimental project that started inside Alphabet’s “...

Mark Cuban weighs in on the recent crypto craze. What Happened: An investor, the Shark Tank host, and the Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has shared his thoughts on investing in crypto with his followers on Twitter, calling crypto trades a bubble “exactly like the internet stock” one...

Scientists at UC Berkley have accomplished the feat of obtaining the cannabis components THC and CBD from yeast. What Happened Through gene hacking, scientists managed to infuse genes from cannabis plant into brewer's yeast, according to Wired. Depending on the type of enzyme carried by...

Technological obsolescence, which has swept many once much-sought after products into oblivion, could come to haunt tablets, according to data from market researcher IDC. Tablet PCs are wireless portable computers with a touchscreen interface and a form factor that's smaller than a notebook...

After all the hype and pomp-filled presentations, the tech community is taking a sobering second look at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)’s new smartphones, and the reviews are pretty mixed for the ballyhooed phone of the future. The blowback from hands-on techno sages suggests that Apple didn...

Think your dinky quad-core computer is fast? Computer geeks are freaking out over the horsepower-heavy new processor unveiled by Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), which sports a blistering 18 cores and 36 threads. “This is the most extreme desktop ever introduced,” Gregory Bryant, Intel...

Recently exposed flaws in Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN)’s gene sequencing technology, which jeopardize past medical achievements and delay progress, sent the company’s stock plunging 2 percent Friday. Cross-contamination has allegedly skewed the results of numerous sequencing endeavors...

The decision to launch a MOAB mega-missile into Afghanistan has raised interest in the maker of such an ostentatious bomb, which isn’t a company at all. It’s a little-known plant owned and operated by the government to create weapons of really massive destruction. In a world in which...

With all the attention on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and its iPhone 7 launch event, little attention is being paid to Sony Corp (ADR) (NYSE: SNE). The company introduced the new PlayStation 4 Pro and a new, slimmer, lighter updated console device, which maintains the PS4 name at its PS4 event. The...

Scientists have found a new way to kill Aedes Aegypti, carrier of Yellow Fever, Dengue Fever and the Zika virus, in an innovative way — through a weaponized fungus. A Wired.com report stated the fungus Metarhizium brunneum attacks mosquitoes in two ways. One variety of the fungus spore, the...

If you already own a Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) Model X or Model S but don’t want to shell out $3,000 to add the popular Autopilot feature, Tesla has some good news. If you’re curious about what you’re missing, the company is currently offering a free 30-day trial for...

Shares of Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) were trading higher by more than 1 percent early Tuesday morning, despite a worldwide outage that has affected millions of users. According to Wired, an outage began at 8:20 a.m. GMT and affected mobile and desktop versions of Twitter. However, as many users...